Felids Interactions - Interspecific Conflicts

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(08-29-2018, 12:05 AM)AlexE Wrote:

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Injured lion after fight with mexican jaguar 

this is our 7 year old african lion that has been a main attraction for our zoo for many years. few days ago a jaguar leaped a fence into the lions enclosure that he never knewed it was a lion enclosure until the lion charged at him. our guest witnessed a battle between the 2 cats that lasted for a few minutes before we were able to separate them. fortunately both cat lived. the lion however, needed medical treatment and will likely loose his right eye due to severe clawing. 

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I noticed this here and I´ve seen this somewhere else too some time ago. I didn´t see this corrected so here a link to Chinese media and what they tell about this lion:

http://news.ifeng.com/photo/society/2009...4384.shtml

Chinese text translated: 

" Lose love, fight eye injury, Ningbo Hospital performs eye surgery for lions

At 11:24 on March 24, 2009 Xinhua. In the operating room of Ningbo Youngor Zoo, staff assisted doctors in performing eye surgery on African lions.

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[b]Xinhua reported March 23[/b] that day, the First Hospital of Ningbo City ophthalmologist after more than an hour of intense work for the African lion Ningbo Youngor Zoo "dragon" the successful implementation of eye surgery. The male African lion "Flying Dragon" is 10 years old this year. In February, he was scratched in his right eye while competing with other male lions for a mate. This resulted in the formation of a "granuloma" that affected his vision. The veterinarian subsequently performed an operation on him. After a period of time, the eyelid adhesions occurred again, his vision was blocked again, and the doctor performed operations on it again.

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On March 23, in the operating room of Ningbo Youngor Zoo, doctors performed a B-ultrasound examination for the African lion before the operation. "


When looking at text and link, which AlexE shared it´s good to notice, that it´s an obvious fake profile created to pretend to represent the Ningbo Zoo. That profile has only three photos copied from some place what comes to treatment of this lion. And then that obvious made up story. Nothing else on the entire profile/account, so no question about it, that it´s not an official profile.

Also when looking at that story common sense should ring alarm bells.... jaguar jumping over fence to other enclosure, which in this case would have to be right next to jaguars enclosure. And then jaguar would have no idea to where it was jumping and that bigger cats there.... right, sure.. sounds right, right? And yes, that was sarcasm. Also whole text written without capital letters starting sentences etc.

So based on that fake account big cats would be kept in enclosures with maybe 2 meter high fences and nothing else and then they would keep there a blind and deaf jaguar with no sense of smell. Still in good enough condition to jump over fence

Well, one example of it, that there are people with odd agendas creating that kind of stories in internet. There are some other links to newspaper articles concerning this case, but it was long time ago and not too many anymore functional. Reply